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The Bantu-Romance connection : a comparative investigation of verbal agreement, DPs, and information structure /
Both Bantu and Romance languages use a V(erb) S(ubject) construction to express thetic ("out-of-the-blue") sentences. Two types of languages can be distinguished within these language families, with respect to the verbal agreement in a thetic VS sentence: in type 1 the verb has default agr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins,
©2008.
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| Colección: | Linguistik aktuell ;
Bd. 131. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Both Bantu and Romance languages use a V(erb) S(ubject) construction to express thetic ("out-of-the-blue") sentences. Two types of languages can be distinguished within these language families, with respect to the verbal agreement in a thetic VS sentence: in type 1 the verb has default agreement, whereas in type 2 the verb agrees with the postverbal subject. In the Bantu languages these two types also display a difference in the use of conjoint and disjoint verb forms. Collins (2004), Carstens (2005), and Baker (2008) have previously analyzed such agreement and word order phenomena. These acco |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xix, 355 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027290670 9027290679 1282105647 9781282105645 9786612105647 661210564X |